Go, and catch a falling star,Get with child a mandrake root,...Tell me, where all past years are,Or who cleft the devil's foot,Teach me to her mermaids singing,Or to keep off envy's stinging,And findWhat windServes to advance an honest mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that we...re real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly. If th' assassination...Could trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success--that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all!--here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »